“The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Now and then I see a balloon caught in the power lines, holding on, waving, flapping softly in the evening air, and… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I discovered that we liked each other. But I was fearful of giving free rein to my emotions. Fearful that all those… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I took over a show with 'Buzzcocks.' And also, I was younger and I didn't know what I was doing. It's always… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
“It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling—and I don’t think this is just nostalgia—was one of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that;… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering… — Giorgio Bassani Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It’s that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
